Working Girls

Film

No upcoming events

Powdered Chickens. 1925. USA. Directed by Edward Ludwig

Women’s emancipation began in the 1800s and reached critical mass in the early 1900s, so suffragettes and women in the workplace were ready subjects for silent comedies. Unwelcome harassment and unequal pay abound. Featuring Edna Marion, Mary Thurman, Marvel Rae, Dorothy Gish, and Madge Kirby.

Program Approx. 90 min.

Stenographer Wanted. 1912. USA

A Cure for Suffragettes. 1913. USA. Directed by Edward Dillon

Bertha the Button-Hole Maker. 1914. USA. Directed by Del Henderson

Love Loops the Loop. 1918. USA. Directed by Walter Wright, Hampton Del Ruth

A Fresh Start. 1920. USA. Directed by Jack White

My Baby Doll. 1925. USA. Directed by Edward Luddy

This film accompanies Cruel and Unusual Comedy: Astonishing Shorts from the Slapstick Era.

Past events

Thu, Jan 26, 2017, 7:00 p.m.

All films are silent with live piano accompaniment by Ben Model

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Sat, Jan 21, 2017, 4:00 p.m.

All films are silent with live piano accompaniment by Ben Model

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

Licensing

If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations).

MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at [email protected]. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at [email protected]. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit https://www.moma.org/research/circulating-film.

If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email [email protected]. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to [email protected].